A detective novel with a flawed heroine, a murderous crime and post-Katrina New Orleans as a backdrop.
Claire DeWitt heads to New Orleans to investigate the death of Assistant District Attorney Vic Willing. Packing a fingerprint kit and a hefty amount of emotional baggage, she sets about solving the crime, using her dreams as clues. Her unquenchable thirst for the truth leads her into the ruined, flood-damaged landscape of abandoned buildings and shops, haunted by young boys with dead eyes, selling drugs and shooting each other. Scalpel-sharp DeWitt mulls over the evidence, regrets her past and refuses to compromise her morals. Gripping and atmospheric.
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£12.99 Faber
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